Tennessee star cleared to play

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🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to breakdown Wednesday’s news that Tennessee star offensive lineman Trey Smith has been cleared to play in Saturday’s season-opening game against Georgia State.

Smith, a former five-star prospect and Freshman All-American, has twice been sidelined in the past two years with serious blood-clotting issues, but Smith has now fought back twice to get back on the field.

A discussion on Smith’s return and its impact on the Vols is the full focus of this quick, breaking-news episode.

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0:00.0	Alright. What's up y'all?
0:13.0	West Rucker Patrick Brown coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio here on a
0:16.0	Wednesday night with another yet another govalls 24-7
0:20.0	breaking news podcast. Pat we just left the University of Tennessee's campus and we came
0:24.2	here to podcast immediately which means it's important why is it important?
0:29.0	It's important because Tennessee's best player will be available at least in some capacity for Saturday
0:33.6	season of bringing Georgia State that's right Trey Smith the star
0:36.4	offensive linemen the former five-star prospect has been cleared to play and will be
0:40.7	on the field and looks like he'll be involved in the season
0:44.5	no-brough on Saturday. Yeah, this is big news for Tennessee and again I think it's
0:48.4	safe to say that if you had this is the kind of news that if you had told us
0:52.0	about this maybe four or five six months ago. We would have said this is a a big deal. This is a really interesting
1:05.0	interesting because it's not have been a surprise necessarily but it's still really
1:08.1	interesting because it's not something you see very often a guy has been taken off
1:12.2	the field twice for a very
1:13.5	very serious medical issue and they think they have gotten it under wraps and
1:17.7	he's going to get to continue playing football which is man had a few months ago
1:21.6	I thought best case scenario with this thing would have been he read church
1:24.4	this year and then and then comes back in place two more years. This is this has
1:29.6	been Yeoman's work by the by the University, medical staff, by experts across the country,
1:35.6	by Trey Smith and his family.
1:37.3	This took a lot of working parts to make happen.
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